Israel National News reports: “Russia has sent a naval flotilla of seven warships led by an anti-submarine destroyer to its naval base at the Syrian port of Tartus, the Interfax news agency reported.

AFP quoted the report as having said that the Admiral Chabanenko and three landing craft have left their home port of Severomorsk in the Arctic Circle on their way to the Mediterranean. They will be joined by the Russian patrol ship Yaroslav Mudry as well as an assistance vessel.

The patrol ship Smetlivy from the Russian Black Sea Fleet’s base in the Ukrainian port of Sevastopol is also on its way to Tartus, Interfax added.

‘The program of the voyage includes a call in the Syrian port of Tartus,’ the unnamed source told the news agency, adding the trip was taking place in line with the plans of military readiness of the Russian fleet…” (Syria will be aligned with Russia during World War III – Ezekiel 38:1, 2, 8, 16; Isaiah 17:1.)

SpaceWar.com reports: “Perhaps the biggest waste of U.S. funds in the conduct of U.S. President Barack Obama’s foreign policy to date has been its smallest expenditure.

Whatever the U.S. government paid for the ‘reset’ button, delivered to the Russians early in Obama’s tenure as a symbolic gesture of improving a relationship, which had soured under President George W. Bush, it has proven a waste of money.

In Vladimir Putin, we bear witness to an aspiring totalitarian who has successfully used the framework of democracy in his own country to build the foundation of a dictatorship and who perceives opposition, both foreign and domestic, as a danger to the world order he believes will best guarantee his international influence.

He has taken the reset environment the United States sought to create in its relationship with him as a green light to pursue his personal objectives — objectives totally out of sync with those of the United States…” (Obama’s secret deal according to The New York Times, the forsaking of missile bases in Poland and the Czech Republic if Russia holds Iran under control has failed. Iran joins Russia during World War III – Ezekiel 38:1, 2, 5, 8, and 16. Remember, Persia of verse five became Iran in 1935,)